Some cosmic impacts are loud, fiery, and leave unmistakable craters. Others are quieter in geological terms, yet no less ...

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

Researchers reveal how cosmic airbursts strike Earth without craters - and why they may be more common and destructive than ...

In the new study, researchers set out to calculate just how likely it is that an asteroid could hit Earth during the average ...

Throughout Earth's history, the planet has been struck by multiple asteroids, some so large, like the Chicxulub Impactor, that Earth's climate was altered to the point of a mass extinction event ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. It now poses a threat to the moon, rather than Earth.

Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth as part of a mysterious daytime fireball in late June missed striking a man near ...

A mysterious fireball blazed across the sky in broad daylight on June 26, sparking hundreds of siting reports in Georgia and ...

A meteorite, older than Earth itself, crashed through a Georgia home. Estimated to be 4.56 billion years old, this ancient ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous space rock could hit the moon in late 2032 and that could have some ...

Particles the size of large sand grains, ranging from 0.1 to 10 millimeters in size, of lunar material could reach Earth between a few days and a few months after the asteroid strike because they ...